A crazy Hungarian who looked like he just landed from Mars went into the Washington D.C. Headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank on Pennsylvania Avenue one day, with an entourage of a dozen security guards each carrying four heavily laden bags of money.
He insisted that he must speak with the Chairman of the bank to buy up all the outstanding debts of the U.S. Government because, "It's a lot of money!" After much hemming and hawing, the bank staff finally ushered him into the Chairman's office.
Greenspan then asked him how much of the debt he would like to buy. He replied, "$7.5 trillion!" and the security entourage proceeded to dump 48 bags of cashiers checks onto his desk.
Greenspan was of course curious as to how he came by all these cashiers checks, so he asked him, "Sir, I'm surprised you have amassed so much cash drawn on all those foreign banks. Where did you get this money?"
The cocky Hungarian replied, "I make bets." Greenspan then asked, "Bets? What kind of bets?"
The Magyar man then said, "Well, for example, I'll bet you $1 billion that your balls are square."
Greenspan laughs, "That's a stupid bet. You can never win that kind of bet!"
The crazy Hungarian challenged, "So, would you like to take my bet?"
Greenspan agrees, "Sure, I'll bet $1 billion that my balls aren't square!"
The Magyar madman then said, "Okay, but since there is a lot of money involved, may I bring my financial adviser with me tomorrow at 10am as a witness?"
"Sure!" replied the confident but senile Greenspan.
That night, Greenspan got very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of a mirror checking his balls, turning from side to side, again and again.
He thoroughly checked them out until he was sure that there was absolutely no way his balls were square and that he would win the bet.
The next morning, at precisely 10am, the crazy Hungarian appeared with his financial adviser at Greenspan's office.
He introduced the adviser who was about the same age as Greenspan and repeated the bet "$1 billion says the Chairman's balls are square!"
Greenspan agreed with the bet again and the mad Magyar asked him to drop his pants so they could all see. Greenspan complied.
The crazy Hungarian peered closely at his balls and then asked if he could feel them.
"Well, Okay," said Greenspan, "$1 billion is a lot of money, so I guess you should be absolutely sure."
Just then, he recognized the financial advisor as the one and only George Soros and he was quietly banging his head against the wall. Greenspan asked the crazy Hungarian, "What the hell's the matter with your financial advisor?"
He replied, "Nothing, except I bet him $7 billion that at 10am today I'd have The Federal Reserve Bank Chairman's balls in my hand."
Copyright C 2004! All World Rights Reserved. By G! Alex Gabor
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